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“This lucid, highly readable book draws on a rich variety of primary and secondary material about the folk beliefs that Thomas Hardy incorporates into his work. Dillion's deft analysis of the cultural implications of folk practices will be essential reading for anyone interested in the intersections between Hardy and folklore.” (Mary Rimmer, University of New Brunswick, Canada)
“This immediately establishes itself as the most authoritative single study of the complex relationship between folk belief and resurrected custom, survival and revival, in both Hardy's Wessex and the Dorset that inspired it: an essential book for Hardy scholars and enthusiasts.” (Keith Wilson, University of Ottawa, Canada)
“It is no small achievement to deliver a fresh and revealing examination of Hardy, given the extensive nature of Hardy criticism as it now stands, and I do regard this work as outstandingly original in its insight and overarching argument. This new study offers a ground-breaking, original and authoritative account of the folklore elements in Hardy to which all students of his work will now be indebted. ” (Roger Ebbatson, Lancaster University, UK)
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Book Title: Thomas Hardy: Folklore and Resistance
Authors: Jacqueline Dillion
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1057/978-1-137-50320-6
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan London
eBook Packages: Literature, Cultural and Media Studies, Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2016
Hardcover ISBN: 978-1-137-50319-0Published: 05 October 2016
eBook ISBN: 978-1-137-50320-6Published: 23 September 2016
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: VII, 206
Topics: Nineteenth-Century Literature, British and Irish Literature, Fiction, Literary History